PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

The death, at Duncdin, is aunounccd of Mr. James Jago, well known on the concert platform throughout the Dominion.

Rifleman Eric Varnham St. George, of the Earl of Liverpool's Own, died at Trentliam on Thursday from spinal cerebro meningitis, following on measles. Tlie friends of Mrs. Wilkie, OrlcnM! Bay, will regret to hear she is at present an inmate of the Bowen Street Hospital, .Wellington. Mrs Wilkie is a sister of Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., for Egmont.

Private advice has been received that (Private Roy Olcey, of New Plymouth, lias been wounded at the Dardanelles, and is in hospital at Taploid, Buckinghamshire, England. A London cable announces the death, at the age of o'2, of Sir Claude MacDonald, formerly 'British Ambassador to Japan, a defender of tho Legations during the Boxer rising of 1900. Mr. Guthrie, stationmaster at Turakina, has received notice of transfer to New (Plymouth, to fill the vacancy on the railway staff caused by the enlistment of Captain Horsnell.

'Prom advice received by the last mail, Archbishop O'Shea, of Wellington, Is spending a very pleasant holiday in America. His Grace is at present the gixest of the Apostolic Delegate at Washington, and after visiting New York and Chicago he expects to return to New Zealand about the middle of October.

In alighting from a. tramcar on his way to Parliament House on Friday, the Hon. R. K. Simpson, M.L.C., had a fall which occasioned dislocation of a shoulder. After the dislocation 'had been reduced by Dr. Thacker, M.P., and Dr. Newman, M.P., he was taken to a private hospital for further treatment. ■ The Wanganui Herald understands that the Rev. J. D. MeKenzie, pastor of St. Paul's, Wanganui, who has taken a very prominent part in all local patriotic efforts has offered his services to the military authorities; to take the place of Chaplain-Major Grant, of Gisborne, who was killed on the 18th at the Dardanelles,

Bugler Abraham Maclincr, who returned by the Tahiti, belongs to Auckland, and is twenty-one years of age. He is the first of tlie Jewish young men from New Zealand to be wounded. Before settling in the Dominion he was a member of the Royal Irish Rifles, Redfern, Sydney. When he enlisted he belonged to a section of the New Zealand Field Ambulauce Corps. It is feared ho will lose 'his arm.

Mr. E. B. Welch, formerly of Stratford, and now residing in Wanganui, has- received advice from the Defence Office, Melbourne, that his son, William, aged 22, was killed in action at the Dar. danelle3 on 7t'h August. Trooper W. B. Welch was in Melbourne at the outbreak of the war, and enlisted in the Bth Light Horse, 3rd L.H. Brigade. He was wellknown and had many friends in the Toko and Pohokitra districts. Mr ~T. Swindlehurst, of Hunter Road, Eltham, lias (says the Hawora Star), received advice from tho Defence authorities, that his son, Private Fred. R. Swindlehurst, who has been missing since August 8, is believed to have been killed in action. The advice previously received was that Private Swindlehurst was wounded in the thigh. Mr. and Mrs Swindlehurst will have the sympathy of the whole of the community.

In the list of officers appointed on probation to the Ninth Reinforcements (infantry) are Second-Lieut*. C. C. Gilbert and K. H. Espiner (11th Regiment, Taranaki Rifles), both of New Plymouth. Sccond-Lieuts. H. W. Kennedy (Ingler wood), and Lance Buchler (Stratford),, are posted to the third reinforcements,, Tirentham Regiment. Major G. "W. Cockroi't, 9th (Hawke's Ray) Raiment, some years ago a teacher in the Central School, New Plymouth, and Captain Charles Horsnell, New Zealand Railway Battalions, and Second-Lieut. Orago Clark (both of New Plymouth) have been appointed to the third,and fourth battalions of the Trentham Rifle Brigade (infantry).